By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has a tough task ahead – defending President Obama’s executive order on immigration to combative Republicans. Fox News reports that Johnson is set to appear today before the House Homeland Security Committee to discuss the executive actions. “The reality is that, given our limited resources, these people…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI issued a strong warning Sunday that ISIS and other terrorist groups want to target military members where they live in the U.S., ABC News reports. The FBI and Homeland Security issued a join intelligence bulletin, urging military members to remove anything from their social media accounts that would bring…
By The Boston Globe Editorial Board The ebola crisis has sparked no small number of irrational statements, but one of the least sensible is the call to invest heavily in US border enforcement. President Obama’s highly anticipated plans for executive action on immigration, announced Thursday, included boosting border security. A more secure border, the thinking…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson issued a letter last week after President Obama unveiled a new immigration plan. Tonight, President Obama will announce a series of executive actions to begin to fix our immigration system. The President views these actions as a first step toward the reform of the system, and…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com An Oklahoma law school is creating a national center for homeland security law and policy, the Associated Press reports. The new Judge Alfred P. Murrah Center for Homeland Security Law and Policy is being established at the Oklahoma City University of Law. “This will be a one-of-a-kind center that will be…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A Navy veteran who posted photos to Facebook of Homeland Security vehicles arriving near Ferguson was fired from his job and accused of being a terrorist, CNN reports. Mark Paffrath worked for the Drury hotel chain where the federal vehicles were amassing in a parking lot when he snapped the photos….
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Silk Road, a notorious online drug supplier, has been busted again, The Verge reports. The FBI, Homeland Security and European law enforcement seized the replacement site. Authorities arrested suspected operator Blake Benthall, 26, in California on Wednesday. It appears Benthall slipped up when he used his own email address for a…
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The next U.S. attorney general may be the deputy secretary of the Homeland Security Department, the New York Post reports, citing “well-placed sources.” The short list of candidates to replace Attorney General Eric Holder is Alejandro Mayorkas, a Cuban-American lawyer. “He’s one of the top candidates. He has all the qualifications…
